Andy Serkis Quotes
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An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
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Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
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Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
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I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.
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I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.
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I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.
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I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
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I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
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I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
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I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
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Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
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If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.
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My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.
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More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
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Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
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I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
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I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.